No illuminated keyboard on the 2.0ghz Macbook model

[Kaido]

http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html

An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model.

So the silver 2.4ghz Macbook has a backlit keyboard, but the silver 2.0ghz model doesn't. Does that strike anyone else as messed up?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Kaido
http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html

An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model.

So the silver 2.4ghz Macbook has a backlit keyboard, but the silver 2.0ghz model doesn't. Does that strike anyone else as messed up?

I think its for product differentiation, to help justify the $300 price diff...

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: Kaido
http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html

An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model.

So the silver 2.4ghz Macbook has a backlit keyboard, but the silver 2.0ghz model doesn't. Does that strike anyone else as messed up?

I think its for product differentiation, to help justify the $300 price diff...

lol...last time it was the black color for $150...now it's a backlit keyboard for $300 :laugh:

I really can't believe the 2.4ghz model is $1,599. That's just insane. At least put Firewire on it for that price, Apple!

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: Kaido
http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html

An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model.

So the silver 2.4ghz Macbook has a backlit keyboard, but the silver 2.0ghz model doesn't. Does that strike anyone else as messed up?

I think its for product differentiation, to help justify the $300 price diff...

lol...last time it was the black color for $150...now it's a backlit keyboard for $300 :laugh:

I really can't believe the 2.4ghz model is $1,599. That's just insane. At least put Firewire on it for that price, Apple!

Interesting, I didn't even notice that they had left out Firewire on the new version.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: Kaido
http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html

An illuminated keyboard, a popular feature of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, now comes standard on the 2.4GHz MacBook model.

So the silver 2.4ghz Macbook has a backlit keyboard, but the silver 2.0ghz model doesn't. Does that strike anyone else as messed up?

I think its for product differentiation, to help justify the $300 price diff...

lol...last time it was the black color for $150...now it's a backlit keyboard for $300 :laugh:

I really can't believe the 2.4ghz model is $1,599. That's just insane. At least put Firewire on it for that price, Apple!

Yea, $300 = Backlit Keyboard, larger HD, 400mhz and a significantly lighter wallet. Its a load of crap if you ask me. Typical apple unfortunately, 25% step up in price for relatively nothing, especially considering they dropped Firewire and lowered the CPU speed on the next model down (actually, its been dropping since SR was intoduced, 2.2ghz to 2.1ghz to 2.0ghz). Sad.

 

[TheStu]

See that's weird, cuz on the ordering page you have your choice between the English backlit and the Spanish backlit (I think it is Spanish)... so what gives?

 

[randomlinh]

supposedly they all have it, and there was a snafoo somewhere... but again, rumored.

and the $150 for the blackbook got your a few extra mhz and a larger hdd =P

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
supposedly they all have it, and there was a snafoo somewhere... but again, rumored.

and the $150 for the blackbook got your a few extra mhz and a larger hdd =P

I think pre-SantaRosa though, the blackbook was the same Mhz, just a larger HD and black for $200.

 

[aphex]

I just called the Apple store and she confirmed as she had one in front of her, only the $1599 model has a backlit keyboard

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: TheStu
See that's weird, cuz on the ordering page you have your choice between the English backlit and the Spanish backlit (I think it is Spanish)... so what gives?

When I'm on the ordering page for the 1299 macbook, the keyboard option is keyboard english or spanish, but on the ordering page for the 1599 macbook it says backlit keyboard english or spanish.

 

[aphex]

http://www.box.net/shared/static/znlfj1p2m2.JPG

Looks like someone F-ed up.

 

[TheStu]

They must have caught their mistake then, I swear it was the other way yesterday.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TheStu
They must have caught their mistake then, I swear it was the other way yesterday.

Yeah I think they did fix it, I read about this on another forum.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

You could always buy a $20 flashlight.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: TheStu
They must have caught their mistake then, I swear it was the other way yesterday.

it was. I saw it while pricing stuff out on day one.

And a flashlight just isn't the same =P anyway, the more and more I look at the new 13" macbook, the more disappointed I am with it. It really should have been cut in pricing.